Rolling Metal 2016

Weird era we live in.

Speaking of weird! If you like odd, seasick black metal with odd, seasick orchestral (but restrained) keyboards: Ahpdegma, from Japan. Part of the AAAAA (may be off by an A) collective.

http://drakkar-productions-official.bandcamp.com/album/ahpdegma-seolfkwyllen

man this new cough album is really something. solidly RVA in feel to me i.e. "beautiful sludge" or whatever you wanna call it, even at its fiercest it's so richly textured that I just keep thinking man...that is pretty, they have to mean this to be pretty? which I feel like is its own area in doom, as vs. harsher/downer doom or funereal doom (which can also be super pretty but not in this sort of colorful way I'm hearing here). anyway. a fucking great listen to my ears

I've been looking forward to the new Cough record, glad to hear it's good....

And a song named after a Gene Wolfe novel too!

a totallly great song, too! really think this album deserves some spotlight this year

...the First Fragment album Dasein on Unique Leader is really interesting and solid and quite the showcase for the tech side of the equation as well.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, June 1, 2016 7:57 PM (5 days ago)

^ not kidding. hell of a listen, and i didn't enjoy any of the other unique leader stuff mentioned upthread.

loving the new cough, too

I can't wait for the new SubRosa. More nice Beardsley-ish cover art: https://www.facebook.com/profoundlorerecords/posts/1095023120545725

I finally got a copy of Terminal Redux. I love this album more and more.

cheese and crackers!

cool track from upcoming hammers of misfortune LP:

http://www.metalblade.com/hammersofmisfortune/

sounds like hammers of misfortune

That new Hammers track makes me very happy.

Yeah, that is nice.

The new Whitechapel album is a big change of pace for them - they're basically abandoning deathcore for Lamb of God-style "modern metal," clean vocals and all, which is a very good move if they want a fan base that can drink legally.

new Flotsam and Jetsam is p good! there's a song called "Iron Maiden" where dude sings like Bruce and they play Maidenesque harmonized leads and it fucks with me a little.

Holy shit the new Sumac is indeed a massive step up from the debut. Its crushing.

yeah I'm feeling it, esp when it's on a kind of Dazzling Killmen/other 90s metallic math-rock sorta tip

I'm digging this new Ghoul track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGuh6t8g3cY

saw them open for Skeletonwitch. they were fun. I have one of their albums on mp3 and have yet to listen

Aldrahn is doing vocals in some kind of avant black metallish thing called Urarv. Some of it sounds almost post punk, even gothy. Hooray for prominent bass guitar.
http://www.tgnd.no/urarv/

Whatever the hell it is, I'm digging it.

listening to sumac. can def hear the dazzling killmen (& isis & neurosis & khanate). a bit seriousface scowly for me but damn good.

The singer for Pyrexia has been arrested for triple murder. What interests me (a little) is that the metal "press" has jumped immediately to labeling him the band's ex-frontman, but I saw these guys live, with him, opening for Suffocation just a couple of years ago, and don't remember any announcement of a new vocalist in the period since. So what, he became the ex-frontman the minute charges were filed? I mean obviously, yeah, but it feels kinda Stalinist for metal blogs to immediately leap to a "Oh, that guy? Yeah, he's our ex-singer" position.

Dunno what happened after May of 2014 but

http://lambgoat.com/news/comments.aspx?id=22455

Wednesday, May 07, 2014 7:39 AM PT

New York death metal band Pyrexia (Unique Leader Records) and vocalist Erick Shute have parted ways. Details have yet to be revealed, with Shute only offering up the following yesterday: "I officially recuse myself from Pyrexia. I wish the guys all the best."

We can't help but think that this is somehow related to Shute's attempt to crowdfund a large metal festival. If you read our news item last week, you may recall that Shute is seeking $175,000 for the Texas Metal Festival. Unfortunately, roughly six days in, Shute and his partner have netted only $35 (said partner personally contributed $100). Though Shute had not openly been using Pyrexia to promote the endeavor, we suspect that his association proved to be a source of acrimony.

Unfortunate last name there

Opeth have signed with Nuclear Blast and will be releasing a new album, Sorceress, by the end of the year. I wasn't that excited about their upcoming Radio City Music Hall show (October 1), but now I think I'm gonna go see 'em again.

DHG posted on their FB yesterday that Aldrahn is out of the band to focus on that Urarv thing. Everything sounded really amicable though. Vicotnik will be doing the vox.

Also:
http://i.imgur.com/3mReSTl.png

Vicotnik will be doing the vox on their upcoming euro tour, to be more accurate.

aw + lol

they were amazing live a few months ago, playing quite a small venue, wonder if they're upscaling now

Heard the new Sumac album now; it's fucking massive and a definite improvement on the debut.

told ya

Is anyone excited about Terra Tenebrosa? I feel kinda meh about what I've heard.

oh man the new Nails yessssssssss

Blut Aus Nord, Terra Tenebrosa, Nails, Inter Arma, Gojira. That's just this week.

I like this Portuguese band Dead Procession. Sort of LLN vibes sometimes. Sort of 1970s weirdo vibes sometimes (like German Oak or something). Maybe not metal exactly but where else am I going to talk about it?

http://dunkelheitprod.bandcamp.com/album/rituais-e-mantras-do-medo-demos

Bought the recent Revenge album. It was that kind of day. They always sound like they were formed by members of a cargo cult who had a crate of copies of Reek Of Putrefaction dropped into their, one assumes, isolated bunker.

dude that is such a great description.

the Sumac record is pretty good yes

in realizing I want to hear way more thrash stuff than death or (esp) black metal, pitting the Occult Burial vs the Ripper from this year. Both are old school, but to my ears from different eras -- former going way back to Venom-style proto-thrash with a punk edge, and the latter opting for early proto-death metal, a la Death, Master, Possessed. I think I prefer Ripper tbh, as Occult Burial gets a little sloppy in both the song and playing departments. However, more of these ilks appreciated!

Deviant Process
Paroxysm
(PRC Music)
Release Sate: 3/11/2016

http://www.metal-archives.com/images/5/6/4/2/564223.jpg?3212

http://open.spotify.com/album/0USr3Ye1aDtm3U2JtmTNVa
http://deviantprocess.bandcamp.com

Quebec is known for churning out quality Tech Death (Cryptopsy, Gorguts) but this debut is fantastic even held up against those lofty standards. I checked it out since it was on the Rate Your Music charts for the year (Top 100 overall; #33 Metal; #12 Death Metal) and even though I tend to get bored by this genre, this is really well done. The chops are evident but the super fast scales and time changes are constructed in a way that is a lot of fun! It's plenty heavy too.

the three tracks from paradise gallows up on inter arma's bandcamp page are fucking ~~~IMMENSE~~~

*thirty seconds into this deviant process record* holy shit yes thank u nycnative

https://www.facebook.com/AnataDeathMetal/posts/1375508039132696

We understand that a lot of you guys are still waiting for the new or whatever album and we absolutely LOVE you guys for hanging in there.
So here's what. Mastering of the long awaited album will take place in July.
And then we'll see. Times are changing and there are different options when it comes to labels, formats etc.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh

(also there's something about Infernal Depths of Hatred being reissued on vinyl)
http://www.kaotoxin.com/anata-the-infernal-depths-of-hatred-vinyl-reissue-details-revealed/

fuck yes!!!

so that First Fragment album is something, huh

I'm enjoying this new album by Finnish black metal band Korgonthurus. Very much in the desperate-shrieking-over-relentless-waves-of-lo-fi-distortion mode of black metal, but that's a thing I like a lot when it's done with sufficient intensity.

https://open.spotify.com/album/39ChoIwnmDGO2yEMUicr5B

Also just getting to Deviant Process now. Bracing chewing-your-brain tech-death. The music is incredible, but the vocals are in this gargly just-beginning-to-vomit part of the spectrum that wears on me pretty quickly, so I'm not sure I'm going to make it through the whole thing.

so that First Fragment album is something, huh

FUCK YES. thought i was the only one.

metal is where we say fuck yes

I wish more tech-death (hell, metal in general) was that straight-up fun

i know! makes great driving music.